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Improve SEO features avoiding text duplication penalties in multilanguage sites

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Davide Garzetti

Monday 17 January 2011 7:54:36 am

Hi, I found that when a site is configured with the site.ini variable RemoveSiteAccessIfDefaultAccess=enabled and there is at least another site access available it can occur in a content duplicate penalty by Google.

The module "switchlanguage" does not consider this site.ini setting and always redirect to url with the siteacess specified in the url.

In this way Google Spider finds two different urls (es. www.site.com/Company and www.site.com/eng/Company) with same content and it penalizes as "content duplicated".

I have posted at http://issues.ez.no the issue #017850 with some code changes that can be used to resolve this problem.

Thanks.

Davide Garzetti

http://www.visionova.it

Ivo Lukac

Monday 17 January 2011 8:55:12 am

A more general issue and fix here also:

http://issues.ez.no/IssueView.php?Id=17762&activeItem=2

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